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Rhys James' use of the Negro dialect is superb. His story has tang and originality. It is a merry tale in an unusual vein and never loses the feeling for childhood or its stormy fun. He returns us to a land we had long lost and so restores a hearty glow we had not felt for so very long a time...
...Gambler, The Nun, And The Radio," which appeared in Scribner's Magazine last spring, is an asset to this collection. It commences in a mad vein but turns rapidly into a dud when the author gets the inspiration toward the end to take several of the characters seriously. This lapse, however, is excusable. Gaetano, the gambler, is an unusual character; Sister Cecilia is the practical nun who prays for Notre Dame in the big game. There is no plot, there are few situations; its virtues may only be ascribed to Mr. Hemingway's consummate technique of making something from nothing...
...suppose this criticism was answered in a similar vein. One might say here is a mayor caught in a ticklish, political situation. He knows that, in addition to the ancient hostility of the town to the gown, there has been growing up a rather wide-spread resentment in Cambridge be the antics of a few New Era professors, and that he is very likely to be the recipient in the coming election of many a vocal brickbat aimed at the subrosa employment of these Messiahs. He well knows that his irrelevant answer to your editorial will be considered...
...Within a few moments after the solution of trypan-blue, injected intravenously, enters the vein of a patient," explained Dr. Heiser last week, "the surface lesions of leprosy become clearly outlined, much as if they were painted in blue on the skin. A few minutes later the entire body becomes blue. Within a week or two after this drug has been injected the hard and lumpy swellings of leprosy undergo softening. Shortly afterward they begin to absorb. In a large percentage of cases in a period of a few months all lesions of leprosy disappear. . . . The blue color disappears about...
Still in detached vein, Dr. Ludwig recalled that anti-Semitism is no new thing in Germany. His own father, a distinguished oculist, was barred from appointment to a Hohenzollern Government clinic because he was a Jew. Facing the fact that Nazi Hitler, by his nationally popular Jew-baiting, has ruined Germany for years to come as a residence for Jews, Author Ludwig proposed that the Jewish people seek membership as a "nation" in the League of Nations and there agitate their rights. Dismissing Palestine as too small for the world's 16,000,000 Jews, Dr. Ludwig comfortably concluded...